Treading new ground in household sector innovation research: Scope, emergence, business implications, and diffusion

Continuous idea contribution in open innovation communities: The role of verbal persuasion from peers

“…We perceive this to be a well-suited research setting to conduct our empirical research for the following reasons. First, household sector innovation is currently trendy and prevalent, representing an increasing part of the overall innovation space ( De Jong et al, 2021 ). It involves innovations in a variety of areas, such as sports equipment, software, and even medical applications ( Resch and Kock, 2021 ).…”

Why Do User Innovators Want to Pursue User Entrepreneurship? On the Influence of the Communitarian Identity

“…In this study, we also use the term communitarian identity because users can be deeply involved with a user community when developing their innovation (de Jong et al, 2021). 2 They frequently participate in the community of users of the product they are developing (e.g., fablab, Thingiverse.com), thereby sharing a common interest and values with other users (Claussen and Halbinger, 2020;Naik et al, 2021;Stanko and Allen, 2022).…”

“…The active roles of users are also documented in studies related to frugal and jugaad innovation (Prabhu and Jain, 2015;Weyrauch and Herstatt, 2017), grassroots innovation (Hossain, 2016;Prahalad et al, 2012), and the maker movement (Dougherty, 2012;Sheridan et al, 2014). 1 Compared to these fields, the concept of user innovations specifically focuses on users who anticipate benefits from obtaining a solution to their needs (de Jong et al, 2021;von Hippel, 2017), and it entails functionally novel products rather than replications, cost reductions, or purely aesthetic improvements of existing designs (Chen et al, 2020;Mulhuijzen and de Jong, 2023).…”

Making the Invisible Visible: Informal Innovation in South Africa

“…Innovation by citizens is embedded in a broad range of creative behaviors: related to do-it-yourself (DIY), tinkering and the generation of online content (de Jong et al, 2021;Mulhuijzen & de Jong, 2023). In the past two decades, citizens in developed countries became increasingly empowered to do things themselves, based on the emergence of the Internet where instructions and tools are shared (e.g., YouTube videos explaining how things are built, CAD files on Thingiverse ready to be printed), and facilities such as Fab Labs (Fox, 2014).…”